[Greg]

How to Fix Cheerleaders Who Been Converted to Playable Characters

I can attest that cheerleaders who have been converted to playable sims do tend to go back to their bizarre personalities and animal costumes. The allegation that they run around cheering after they grow up to be adults appears to be a complete fabrication, however; I cannot duplicate the phenomenon.

Edit: Bad news. The easy approach of just changing the character's age twice might not work. There may not be any way around having to use SimPE to change the NPC type to 0x0000. (See my note #8 below.)


The good news is that it's mind-bogglingly easy to fix:

1. Without having to quit your game, use the Insimenator to change the sim to a child or toddler, then immediately back to adult. (Just spawn the Temoral Adjuster and use it to select the sim's age, twice.) The sim should be a regular playable sim after that.
2. Check the sim's personality and adjust as required. (You can do this with the Insimenator's Personality Adjuster or use the Testing Cheats.)
3. Check the sim's college progress meter. If you see it as red but the sim has all the required skills, just have the sim Declare Major. That will fix it.
4. Change your sim back to the normal clothes you want.

Total time for this procedure: About 1 minute per sim.


Or, if for some unfathomable reason you don't yet have the Insimenator:

1. Download the Insimenator.
2. Install it.
3. Remove the bazillions of buggy, game-crashing hacks that the Insimenator replaces.
4. Restart your game.
5. Go back to the above procedure and take a minute to fix your sim.

Total time for this procedure: About 20 minutes, one time, to install the Insimenator. Hunting down all those other hacks depends on how big of a mess you've made of your game.


Or, if for even more unfathomable reason you don't want to install the Insimenator and really enjoy suffering, you can use SimPE to do it hard way:

1. Quit your game.
2. Start SimPE.
3. Back up your neighborhood.
4. Open the character file.
5. Change Sim Description > Other > NPC type to 0x0000. (Makes it a regular playable sim.)
6. Delete all extra BHAV's except init, main and load.
7. Save the character file.
8. Quit SimPE.
9. Restart your game.
10. Check your character as above.
11. Thoroughly test all sim behaviors in your game to make sure you didn't make a mess.

Total time for the SimPE method: About two hours per sim.